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Leg spinner Shane Warne, who was the key to Australia's 1999 World Cup win, believes India's Sachin Tendulkar is the only man standing between Australia and victory in Sunday's final. [...]

"He is, and has been in my time, the best batsman in the world. He's savage on the quicks if they stray with their line and length and he can dominate and intimidate the spinners.

"That's why it has always been a challenge and a privilege to bowl to him."

Tendulkar has scored 669 runs at 66.90 in the World Cup in southern Africa, breaking the World Cup record he set in 1996.[

"Sometimes Plans A and B go out the window and you don't want to be relying on Plan C, which is that he gets bored hitting boundaries, runs himself out, or one of his team mates runs him out," Warne wrote.
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Lord's in brilliant sunshine on the longest day of the summer provided the perfect backdrop for a match still considered the best one-day international ever staged.
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Result: West Indies 291 for eight, 60 overs (Clive Lloyd 102, Rohan Kanhai 55); Australia 274, 58.4 overs (Ian Chappell 62 not out). West Indies won by 17 runs.

1979: West Indies v England, London:

West Indies were at their peak with an all-conquering pace attack and Richards without peer as a destructive batsman.
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Result: West Indies 286-9, 60 overs (Viv Richards 138 not out, Collis King 86); England 194, 51 overs (Mike Brearley 64, Geoff Boycott 57, Joel Garner 5-38). West Indies won by 92 runs.

1983: India v West Indies, London:

Nobody gave India any chance against West Indies, still the best side in the world by some distance in both forms of cricket.
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Result: India 183, 54.4 overs (Krishna Srikkanth 38); West Indies 140, 52 overs. India won by 43 runs

Imran Khan had come out of retirement for the final time to lead a team who were woefully under-performing. Urged by Imran to fight like "cornered tigers", Pakistan reached the final against a highly professional England outfit under Graham Gooch.
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Result: Pakistan 249-6, 50 overs (Imran Khan 72, Javed Miandad 58); England 227, 49.2 overs (Neil Fairbrother 62). Pakistan won by 22 runs.